Hi KellyOfErin,
The horizontal lines on the monitor that connected through the VGA port are what I was talking about, and yes! They are very annoying (sometimes). In my experience, these lines become more visible when still images with dark pale colors attributes. However, I was planning to test my monitor on my friend G53SX laptop, just to be sure is there something wrong with all Asus laptops or just mine! And I was, also, planning to run the test on other monitor brand, maybe it is a compatibility issue!
Regarding your question, these horizontal lines don’t appear when connected with HDMI, although I’m using HDMI to DVI-D brandless cable, since my monitor only has VGA and DVI-D ports.
Regarding your second question, yes, the laptop screen still functions normally. Therefore, basically, I have three monitors connected to one computer, I was planning to test eyefinity setup on a FPS game, I tested a couple of games, I couldn’t run them on more than one monitor, and I guess the game itself must support this kind of resolution, as well as how much your VGA card can go!
I just read the other night, that Mini-Display port just as good as HDMI! They were invented by Apple and they support very large resolution, with very high rate of refreshing signal (frequency).
- There are some other solutions which I thought of regarding the multi-display setup, one of them is the Mini-Display port I mentioned earlier, and the other one is HDMI splitter, although I’m not sure how they will function.
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